Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX

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From: Jeremy Gibbons
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 03:32

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In <1992Apr8.125208.23444@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:

>However, you should be able to click a mouse on a spot in the preview, and
>automatically go to the corresponding spot in the TeX source...

Hmm. OK, most of the time there is exactly one corresponding spot. What if
the piece of text was produced by a macro (eg, I click on the `T' of
`LaTeX') though---do I want to go to the macro definition, or to the macro
call? I reckon it should be call here, but if I click on the body of a
footnote I want to go to the `definition' (somewhere in the argument to
\footnote) rather than the `call' (the occurrence of the \footnote itself).
And what happens when I click on a page number or a running header?

Jeremy

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